I’d like to second his suggestion that the power button on the ultra exit the program and stop streaming. It would be logical and nice to have.
Does anyone else use the sleep timer on their TV? The wasted bandwidth... There must be an HDMI control signal that could tell Roku the TV is going Off. My AV audio system Powers off and on with the TV via HDMI controls. No problem with the Roku staying alive, everything else is. They need to consider wasted bandwidth in their software design.
"Smokindog" wrote:
"atc98092" wrote:
Just pressing the Home button before powering down will always close any channel and stop playback. I made that my habit way back when I got my first Roku.
Someone else has proposed a sleep timer, which would stop any playback after a set time, and I think that would make sense. They can't implement what you propose across the board because before this year no Roku remote has a power button except for the Roku TVs.
That's why it needs to be added as an option button. Home button habits don't work if you fall asleep watching TV ;) Also, when my TV is turned off, I expect everything associated with it to terminate (ala CEC). This request has too many merits to dismiss IMO.
- Prevents excessive use of bandwidth
- Makes is more consistent with devices that actually DO power off
- Dovetails with implementation of sleep timer (another obvious need IMO)
- Makes operation more consistent with CEC intent/operation
- Makes the device behave like most others
- I don't have previous versions of ROKU (I have 4660 and 3800) but if as you say they just added the power button this feature should not impact other ROKU devices as they don't have the power feature........
PS - I always chuckle when someone says some software feature "can't be done" :) Not a slam at you, just a general observation.
